The Dr. Fox effect is a correlation observed between a teacher's attire, expressiveness and coverage of content on one side, and student evaluation and student achievement on the other. The effect also offers insight into other related effects and relationships between student achievement and how a teacher is evaluated.
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Core ClaimThe Dr. Fox effect is a correlation observed between teacher attire, expressiveness, content coverage, student evaluation, and student achievement. 1 Evidence Standing Sources
1. Wikipedia: Dr. Fox Effect
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The Dr. Fox effect is a correlation observed between teacher attire, expressiveness, content coverage, student evaluation, and student achievement.
Experiment section, first sentence
The original experiment was performed at the University of Southern California School of Medicine in 1970
Article text
This finding renders questionable the validity of student evaluations. === Eyal Peer and Elisha Babad === Criticisms of the original study include the experiment's lack of a control group, the use of a "Yes/No" scale, and lack of measurement evaluating learning among the participants.
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